Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 360 - 279: Netherworld Era Life
The world after death.
A vast land shrouded in misty blackness.
Underfoot was black sand astonishingly dark, while the sky was enveloped by an endless, misty gray-black.
Infinite desolation, boundless and without beginning or end, leaving only pure blackness, with no mountain ranges, so barren it invoked instinctual fear.
Other divine powers seemed forcibly suppressed, with only a tiny fraction of their original might remaining.
Even fate was suppressed.
This made the Goddess of Destiny slightly frown, "The world of death is governed by the fate of death, but I am alive, I can’t fully use the fate of death... This world of death does not acknowledge me."
Fortuna, the Goddess of Destiny, felt herself being suppressed.
Unless she completely became one of the dead, mastering the single divine object of death’s fate... otherwise, as a living being, she would be oppressed here.
The Mysterious God and the Goddess of Destiny had already arrived on this land with a thousand deceased.
These thousand deceased were whispering continuously.
"Is this the world after death?"
"It feels like a newly established, very crude and primitive conceptual world?"
"Yes, there are no divine spirits guarding it."
"Probably it requires the cooperation of various divine spirits using divine power to construct the primal order of this world?"
"But aside from God, the Goddess of Destiny, who can enter the world of the dead? Other divine spirits entering might truly die!"
"Wait for the Goddess of Destiny to resurrect them one by one?"
"Foolish, only those who have just died can be resurrected, and there is a resurrection interval, the gods who enter can only save one?"
"In my opinion, perhaps this land will meet its true master in the future, the Death God!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Due to the massive population, thousands of people died every minute.
So Fortuna selected a group of elite researchers to explore this world.
After all, for these thousand people, it was also a chance encounter.
Because they had actually already died.
An observer couldn’t help but say, "This is a world of void energy, and the black sand beneath our feet seems to be a material formed from condensed souls of the dead."
Another person discussed, "Yes, these black sands are very special! I suspect they are condensed from the mist in the air, forming black sand crystals."
These personnel continued to analyze.
They believed these black sands were substances left in the death world by the fallen of the entire world.
"Are you saying this new world of the dead is gradually forming natural veins?" someone said in surprise.
A magician with a wide imagination said, "Do you think it’s similar to the environmental evolution of a planet over billions of years, veins, then valleys and earth, then possibly nurturing life?"
"Ha, foolish, the world of the dead can only accommodate the dead, it can never originate the living."
"True."
"But is it possible that new dead could be born here?"
"Huh? Absolutely not! Aren’t new dead new life? The world of death can never generate life!"
"New dead are dead, how is it impossible for them to be born in the world of the dead? You’re too foolish!"
"You’re the foolish one! New dead are essentially new life and can’t be born in death."
"No! New dead are essentially just new corpses! They can be born in death!"
Some of the dead began to discuss animatedly.
God observed this and couldn’t help but sigh at the ridiculousness of their topic.
"One of the mythical paradoxes: if the world of the dead were to give birth to life, would it birth the living or the dead?" asked the Goddess of Destiny, unable to suppress a laugh.
Liu Jun looked at this land and felt the urge to rub ’Chaos’
Having rubbed the Immortal Path world, the Magic World, and then the Cosmos, he even wondered if he could rub out a grain of chaos in this world of death?
But thinking about it, he decided to restrain this curiosity.
After all, if he really succeeded, and the grain of chaos couldn’t be sent to the adjacent Immortal Path world, the countdown to the destruction of the world of death could be quite the spectacle!
If it ended up blowing up the divine object of death’s fate, the Goddess of Destiny would burst into tears!
Soon, after some investigation, the Goddess of Destiny concluded:
"These thousand advance team members in our discussion, are currently dying at a rate of 1% activity loss per second."
In a hundred seconds, they would completely disappear from the world of death.
God naturally could feel this clearly, "So, does this mean that after death, one can only maintain their self in the world of death for a hundred seconds, and you can only resurrect those who died within a hundred seconds? Pulling them back to the present world?"
"Yes."
Fortuna showed a hint of gravity, saying, "At that time, Moira truly died because she was dead for more than a hundred seconds."
"Including us now, no matter if we are God or the Goddess of Destiny, if we do not leave this world of death within a hundred seconds, we will also die forever."
God smiled slightly, "No need to worry about this, my Immortal Knight can use the immortal divine power of the Longevity Divine Spirit to lock our state of death."
As soon as he finished speaking, divine power was activated.
[Goddess of Destiny: 87%]
[Mysterious God: 87%]
Their life decay began to halt at the thirteenth second after entering.
"Should we lock the thousand people who followed us in?" the Goddess of Destiny suddenly asked.
"Lock a tenth of them, let’s see what those remaining 900 look like when they die after a hundred seconds."
God said calmly:
"My divine power is not convenient to lock everyone, all divine power here is suppressed, and we must conserve divine power, or it will soon be exhausted."
Maintaining a steady hand.
And these hundred dying deceased were originally meant as a suicide squad.
